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4 Ways to celebrate High Blood Pressure Education Month with kiosks

May 13, 2011 by Kurt Myrick — Technical Engineer, Phoenix Kiosk

Dealing with high blood pressure is an issue confronting many Americans, and personal-health stations are powerful tools when it comes to fighting the good fight. Since May is officially High Blood Pressure Month, and we’re just so excited about being able to offer personal-health stations as part of our inventory, we’re celebrating with a health-management article. Here are four great ways to manage the fight against high blood pressure using a personal-health station.

Personal Prevention
Health stations in  malls, grocery stores and community areas across the country allow people to accept ownership over their own health by checking their blood pressure,weight and other health data at walk-up kiosks available for public access. Those who are comfortable taking these basic readings themselves and acting upon the results can now check their personal data at will and incorporate that data into the appropriate exercise plans, nutritional purchasing choices and menu planning.

Outreach
Health-awareness organizations, community-recreation centers and schools can partner to provide outreach programs by making personal-health stations available at large events or high-traffic locations. By having health-care personal on site to assist individuals with their own data collection, consulting with an entire community can become commonplace and make group-goal setting for health improvement a breeze.

Physician Collaboration
With an integrated data system, end users can have their data stored to a smart card and sent to their physicians or set up shared documents. This is particularly powerful for those living rurally in locations several hours from their regular doctors or specialists. Others who can benefit from having regular access to personal-health stations are truck drivers and frequent business fliers. This makes airports, truck stops and highway rest areas prime locations for positioning personal-health stations.

Organizational Health
Large companies or factories looking to control their group health-care costs can embrace health management in an affordable way with the addition of personal-health stations to the corporate common areas. Break rooms and entryways can become ground zero for tackling tough-to-manage health issues and provide necessary data for justifying on-site fitness equipment for employees.

Personal-health stations, such as the one by Phoenix Kiosk, provide easy access to data that can empower patients and physicians alike. Incorporating one into your programming budget just makes good sense.

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